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SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 


THE  RIGHT  REVEREND 


Daniel  Sylvester  Tuttle 

D.D.,  LL.D..  D.C.L. 

MISSIONARY  BISHOP  OF  MONTANA. 

IDAHOanc/UTAH,MISSIONARY  BISHOP 

OF  UTAH,  BISHOP  OF  MISSOURI,  AND 

PRESIDING  BISHOP  OF 

THE  AMERICAN  CHURCH 

BY  THE 

REV.  MELVILLE  K.  BAILEY 


PRIMAS  IHTER  PARES 


Publication  No.  133  Quarterly,  Price  35  Cents  November,  1923 

Church  Missions  Publishing  Company 

45  Church  Street,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  Hartford,  Conn,  as  second  class  mail  matter,  April  1894 


SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 


THE  RIGHT  REVEREND 


Daniel  Sylvester  Tuttle 

MISSIONARY  BISHOP  OF  MONTANA. 

IDAHO anJ  UTAH,  MISSIONARY  BISHOP 

OF  UTAH.  BISHOP  OF  MISSOURI,  AND 

PRESIDING  BISHOP  OF 

THE  AMERICAN  CHURCH 

BY  THE 

REV.  MELVILLE  K.  BAILEY 


PRIMAS  INTER  PARES 


Publication  No.  133  Quarterly,  Price  35  Cents  November,  1923 

Church  Missions  Publishing  Company 

45  Church  Street,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  Hartford,  Conn,  as  second  class  mail  matter,  April  1894 


FOREWORD 

Any  condensed  account  of  a  long  life  filled  with  activities 
is  in  itself  an  injustice  to  the  subject  of  the  sketch.  Yet  short 
biographies  of  great  lives  are  of  the  greatest  help  to  right  living 
and  thinking.    Such  is  the  excuse  for  this  writing. 

The  portion  concerned  with  Bishop  Tuttle's  work  in  Mon- 
tana, Idaho,  and  Utah  is  taken  almost  exclusively  from  his 
"Reminiscences  of  a  Missionary  Bishop,"  and  at  times  it  has 
been  difficult  to  indicate  that  the  very  words  used  in  this  sketch 
are  from  that  book. 

The  writer  begs  to  express  his  gratitude  for  their  valuable 
criticisms  and  suggestions  to  the  Very  Rev.  Samuel  R.  Colla- 
day,  D.  D.,  Dean  of  Christ  Church  Cathedral,  Hartford,  and 
to  the  Right  Rev.  Frederick  F.  Johnson,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  Mis- 
souri. 


The  Presiding  Bishop 


PART  I 
THE  MISSIONARY  BISHOP 


BISHOP  TUTTLE 

In  October,  1904,  a  Bishop  sat  in  the  President's  chair  of 
the  General  Convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
in  the  United  States  of  America.  He  was  a  man  of  whom  all 
would  say  that  he  had  a  leonine  aspect.  His  broad,  high  fore- 
head and  dome-like  head,  his  great  eyes  and  grand  face,  his 
patriarchial  beard,  were  such,  in  human  nobility,  as  men  imagine 
when  they  think  of  a  lion. 

Before  him  sat  what  a  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
at  Washington  has  called  the  most  august  assembly  of  men  in 
the  United  States.  It  was  the  House  of  Bishops.  Picked  men, 
elected  by  clergy  and  laymen  as  their  ideal  representatives  and 
leaders,  they  had  come  from  every  State  and  Territory  of  this 
great  Republic,  and  foreign  lands.  They  knew  the  splendor  of 
metropolitan  cities,  the  spaces  of  immeasurable  prairies,  the 
peaks  and  gorges  of  mountains,  the  fields  of  arctic  ice,  the 
islands  of  the  sea,  and  the  immemorial  habitations  of  the  East. 
They  had  dealt  with  problems  as  varied  as  the  diverse  families  of 
mankind. 

This  leonine  Bishop  presided  over  the  House  with  grace  and 
ease,  but  when  he  spoke  it  was  with  a  voice  which  reverberated 
through  the  hall,  and  impressed  the  dignified  assembly  as  much 
by  its  paternal  benevolence  as  by  its  lion-like,  resonant  power. 

Daniel  Sylvester  Tuttle's  first  parochial  work  was  as  assis- 
tant at  Zion  Church,  Morris,  Ostego  County,  New  York.  It 
would  be  pleasant  to  follow  his  work  there,  as  it  would  the  story 
of  his  youth.  It  is  evident  that  in  that  faithful  parochial  work 
were  laid  the  foundations  of  the  ministerial  character  which 
made  him  to  all  he  served  truly  a  "father  in  God."  But  we  may 
not  linger  over  that. 

For  it  is  as  almost  a  life-long  Bishop  in  the  Church  of  God 


6  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

that  he  is  chiefly  known.  Four  years  he  was  engaged  solely  in 
parochial  work  and  fifty-six  years  he  was  a  Bishop,  an  extraor- 
dinary record. 

The  call  to  the  episcopate  came  as  an  astounding  surprise 
to  this  young  priest,  less  than  thirty  years  of  age.  He  had  at- 
tended the  consecration  of  Bishop  Williams  of  Japan,  in  New 
York,  October  3,  1866. 

Two  days  later  he  was  informed  of  his  own  election  as  Mis- 
sionary Bishop  of  Montana,  with  jurisdiction  in  Idaho  and  Utah. 
As  he  lacked  three  months  of  the  canonical  age  he  was  advised 
by  his  Bishop,  Horatio  Potter,  to  go  back  to  Morris  until  his 
birthday  was  past. 

"Meanwhile,"  he  writes  in  his  "Reminiscences  of  a  Mission- 
ary Bishop,"  "the  presiding  Bishop  had  appointed  May  1,  1867 
as  the  time,  and  Trinity  Chapel,  New  York,  as  the  place,  for 
my  consecration.  Bishop  Hopkins  himself  was  to  preside; 
Bishops  Potter  and  Neely  were  to  be  present,  Bishop  Randall 
was  to  preach.  Bishops  Odenheimer  and  Kerfoot  were  to  assist, 
and  Rev.  Drs.  S.  R.  Johnson  and  Morgan  Dix,  Presbyters,  were 
to  attend."    This  arrangement  was  in  fact  carried  out. 

The  story  of  Bishop  Tuttle's  journey  to  the  West  reads,  in 
these  days  when  men  expect  to  fly  from  coast  to  coast  between 
dawn  and  dark,  like  a  tale  of  "old  far-off,  unhappy  things." 

His  first  objective  was  Salt  Lake  City,  and  he  was  a  month 
getting  there  from  Omaha.  That  he  could  endure  the  journey 
was  due  to  his  extraordinary  physical  vigor,  which  sustained 
him  so  well  to  the  end,  through  a  long  and  arduous  life.  The 
greater  part  of  it  was  by  stage  coach,  a  mode  of  travel  to  which 
he  was  to  add  forty  thousand  miles. 

The  edge  of  discomfort  was  whetted  by  danger  — ■  from  the 
Indians  — ■  the  more  disturbing  because  he  had  companions, 
the  Rev.  Messrs.  E.  N.  Goddard  and  G.  D.  Miller,  Mrs.  Foote, 
wife  of  Mr.  G.  W.  Foote  who  with  the  Rev.  T.  W.  Haskins  had 
preceded  him,  and  Miss  Foote.    Of  necessity  he  had  left  behind 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  7 

for  a  time  his  beloved  wife  and  child.  On  the  very  eve  of  his 
start  a  clergyman  came  in  with  a  bullet  hole  in  his  coat,  the 
driver  of  his  coach  having  been  shot  dead.  Bishop  Tuttle  and 
the  two  priests  bought  rifles,  and  the  Bishop  had  a  letter  from 
Edwin  M.  Stanton,  Secretary  of  War,  to  General  Sherman,  ask- 
ing for  protection.  So  their  coach  had  always  a  guard  armed  to 
the  teeth,  the  Indians  dared  not  attack,  and  he  says,  "All  the 
forces  of  resistance  seemed  to  be  beaten  down  and  disintegrated." 

They  reached  Salt  Lake  City  July  2.  1867.  The  contrast 
between  the  outward  appearance  of  the  dignified  prelate  who 
presided  over  the  General  Convention  and  the  young  "Apostle 
of  the  New  World"  is  etched  in  his  own  description : 

"At  last  we  got  to  the  city.  Driving  to  the  office  we  found 
Mr.  Haskins  there.  .  .  .  Mr.  H.  was  quite  taken  aback 
at  the  sight  of  my  cartridge  pouch  in  front,  my  pistol  behind,  my 
trousers  in  my  boots,  and  my  dark  features  (from  a  dust  storm). 
He  declares  he  thought  the  driver  had  a  brother  of  the  whip  and 
reins  beside  him." 

The  armed  young  Bishop,  however,  had  never  forgotten  his 
prayers,  but  read  them  daily  with  his  companions,  even  in  the 
rolling  stage  coach. 

He  was  now  at  the  gate  of  his  vast  jurisdiction.  The  task 
which  from  Morris  seemed  so  tremendous  now  might  well  seem 
appalling.  The  territory  was  that  of  a  kingdom.  The  rough- 
ness of  travel  might  exhaust  a  veteran  soldier.  The  population 
of  Utah  was  100,000,  of  Montana  30,000,  of  Idaho  25,000.  In 
the  latter  two  Bishop  Tuttle  was  to  find  a  turbulent  life  and  a 
wild  disregard  of  ordered  religion.  In  Utah  he  was  in  the  heart 
of  a  fanatical  religion  determined  to  exclude  historic  Christianity. 
In  Salt  Lake  City's  population  of  upwards  of  12,000  there  were 
about  250  "Gentiles."  There  were  three  communicants  of  the 
Church.  St.  Paul  himself  never  faced  more  seemingly  desperate 
odds. 


SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 


SALT   LAKE   CITY 


We  have  noted  Bishop  Tuttle's  inexhaustible  bodily  vigor. 
For  his  new  task  he  will  need  in  addition  not  only  the  ardent 
devotion  to  the  Gospel  of  Christ  which  has  been  proved  in  his 
country  parish,  but  also  the  highest  wisdom.  Is  it  possible 
that  a  young  priest  of  thirty  can  possess  it?  The  reader  may 
judge. 

It  is  no  wonder  the  Latter  Day  Saints  thought  Brigham 
Young  inspired  when  he  chose  the  Deseret  Valley  for  their  abode. 
The  visitor,  standing  on  the  hill  before  the  marble  Capitol,  looks 
out  between  noble  ranges  of  mountains  over  farmlands  rich  as 
gardens  to  the  glittering  waters  of  the  Lake,  purple,  sapphire, 
and  white  under  the  sky.  And  the  city  is  adorned  with  fair 
buildings  and  lovely  residences.  Yet  there  seems  a  sinister 
shadow,  typified  by  that  ominous  Temple  whose  doors  are  ever 
shut  by  day  and  night,  which  no  man  passes,  the  entrance  being 
underground. 

Bishop  Tuttle  never  made  a  more  significant  visit  than  when 
he  called  on  Brigham  Young.  He  and  Mr.  Foote  and  Mr.  Has- 
kins  went  in  at  the  gate  beneath  the  eagles  to  the  "Lion  House." 
The  youthful  apostle  might  have  thought,  "He  couched  as  a 
lion,  and  as  an  old  lion:    who  shall  rouse  him  up?" 

But  the  lion  was  quizzically  subtle.  He  received  them 
good-naturedly,  saying  "How  d'ye  do,  Bishop  Tuttle?"  and 
after  catechising  him  as  to  his  pedigree,  turned  the  conversa- 
tion to  general  topics  and  then  spoke  of  an  erring  "apostle"  of 
his  own.  Yet  Bishop  Tuttle  certainly  won  his  freedom  for  sub- 
sequent action  in  this  interview  when  he  surrendered  not  a 
principle,  nor  neglected  a  courtesy.  He  says,  "We  were  most 
civilly  and  courteously  treated  in  this  call,  but  I  was  not  asked 
to  call  again,"  and  adds,  "With  his  keen-sightedness  he  must 
know  that  if  not  in  will  yet  in  reality,  by  our  services  and  our 
school,  we  are  putting  our  clutches  to  his  very  throat." 


The  Bishop  of  the  Rockies 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  O 

Bishop  Tuttle  began  organized  work  with  definite  episcopal 
supervision,  finding  some  material  at  hand.  In  1865  and  1866 
Rev.  Norman  McLeod,  an  army  chaplain,  a  Congregationalist, 
had  preached  several  Sundays  and  started  a  Sunday  School. 
Dr.  Robinson,  the  superintendent,  was  shortly  afterward  mur- 
dered. For  seven  months  a  lawyer.  Major  Hempstead,  kept  up 
the  school,  but  turned  it  over  to  our  clergymen,  Rev.  Messrs. 
Foote  and  Haskins,  in  May,  1867.  Upon  this  foundation  Bishop 
Tuttle  built  a  day  school,  opening  with  sixteen  scholars  and 
increasing  in  a  week  to  thirty-five.  This  was  the  beginning  of 
the  Bishop's  six  schools. 

July  7  the  Bishop  held  service  in  Independence  Hall  with 
about  one  hundred  present.  He  wrote  to  his  wife  that  Mr. 
Miller  had  preached  a  capitally  good  sermon  from  the  text, 
"That  my  joy  may  be  in  you,  and  that  your  joy  may  be  full." 
We  can  see  from  the  text  the  joy  which  was  brought  to  the  little 
flock  by  the  coming  of  their  Bishop,  stalwart  in  physique,  able 
and  scholarly  in  mind,  abounding  in  human  affection,  and  on 
fire  with  zeal  for  Christ  and  His  Gospel.  This  would  be  deepened 
by  the  consciousness  that  the  Bishop  and  his  work  were  sus- 
tained by  the  whole  missionary  devotion  of  the  Church. 

All  who  knew  Mrs.  Tuttle  were  aware  of  the  value  of  her  co- 
operation with  the  Bishop,  and  no  words  could  describe  that 
better  than  his  own,  as  he  wrote  of  the  first  year  in  Salt  Lake 
City: 

"In  our  church  services,  this  winter,  Mrs.  Tuttle  presided 
at  the  organ,  and  led  in  the  singing,  too.  In  this  and  in  manifold 
other  ways,  as  in  visiting,  in  matters  of  hospitality,  in  corre- 
spondence, in  care  of  business  details,  in  counsel,  I  pause  here  to 
say  that  she  has  been  the  very  heart  of  influence  and  the  very 
right  hand  of  good  work  for  and  with  me  during  all  the  years 
of  close  companionship  with  her  with  which  a  merciful  God 
has  blessed  me.  If  the  duties  laid  upon  me  have  been  at  all 
successfully  discharged,  it  has  been  her  wise  judgment  and  rare 


10  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

efficiency ^^and^ unwearied  activity  that  have  made  the  success 
possible.  Justice,  at  the  expense  of  dehcacy,  demands  this 
rendering  of  honor  to  whom  honor  is  due." 

MONTANA 

Who  that  ever  heard  Bishop  Brewer  speak  that  resounding 
name  could  forget  it?  Bishop  Tut  tie,  having  laid  the  founda- 
tions in  Salt  Lake  City,  set  his  face  toward  the  Terra  Montana, 
the  Land  of  the  Mountains. 

He  followed  St.  Paul's  method  of  planting  the  Church  in 
cities  first.  But  there  was  a  sharp  contrast.  When  St.  Paul 
came  to  Athens  it  had  been  for  four  centuries  the  most  beauti- 
ful city  in  the  world.  When  Daniel  Sylvester  Tuttle  came  to 
Montana  it  had  been  a  dwelling  place  for  white  men  five  years. 
Its  mansions  were  log  huts,  its  palaces  frame  houses. 

In  his  rough  stage  coach  journey  five  hundred  miles  north 
from  Salt  Lake  City  he  passed  through  the  rich  farms  of  northern 
Utah,  through  the  southeastern  part  of  Idaho,  and  over  the 
Rockies  five  hundred  feet  higher  than  Mt.  Washington,  to 
Virginia  City,  the  capital  of  Montana. 

He  was  enchanted  with  the  mountain  scenery,  peak  rising 
beyond  peak,  hills  lifting  in  the  gorges,  all  wooded,  and  having 
abundant  water  and  nourishing  grass  for  horses  and  cattle. 

The  social  and  political  condition  of  its  people  had  not  yet 
reached  the  altitude  of  the  mountains.  They  had  indeed  im- 
proved. When  gold  was  discovered  the  rush  of  fortune  hunters 
was  followed  by  a  plague  of  robbers,  of  which  the  actual  head 
was  the  sheriff.  Under  his  protection  one  hundred  and  two  mur- 
ders had  been  committed.  Finally  the  people  could  endure  it  no 
longer.  The  Vigilantes  were  organized.  Before  them  standing 
in  judgment  under  a  bright  December  sun  the  first  desperado 
was  convicted,  and  his  body  swung  from  the  gallows  in  the  cold 
moonlight  of  the  same  evening.  The  work  was  continued  until 
organized  robbery  had  been  suppressed. 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  U 

In  Virginia  City  the  life  though  crude  was  apparently  not 
disorderly,  but  the  task  of  organizing  a  strong  Church  work  was 
harder  than  in  Mormon  Utah.  The  Bishop  at  once  began  to 
gather  the  scattered  pieces  and  join  them  together.  His  method 
was  what  he  had  learned  in  his  country  parish,  to  seek  out 
individuals,  to  use  the  hook  and  line  rather  than  the  drag  net. 

"In  spite  of  all  the  drawbacks  of  this  town,"  he  writes, 
"kind  hearts  are  here,  cultivated  women  are  here,  intelligent 
society  is  here,  some  children  are  here;  and  such  a  field  for  im- 
mediate, faithful  Church  work  as  I  never  before  saw." 

The  finest  master  worker  of  mosaic  never  sought  out  his 
jewelled  pieces  more  carefully.  A  young  man,  Mr.  E.  S.  Calhoun, 
called  with  a  letter  from  Dr.  Washburn  of  New  York.  The 
Bishop  himself  began  calling,  first  on  Mr.  Calhoun,  then  on  Dr. 
Gibson,  the  postmaster,  on  Governor  Smith,  and  he  met  Judge . 
Hosmer.  These  men  could  recognize  their  peer  in  the  tall, 
broad  shouldered,  black  bearded  pioneer  prelate.  He  met  a 
Mrs.  Meagher,  of  whom  he  writes  to  his  wife,  "she  is  one  of  the 
cleverest  women,  and  most  brilliant  in  conversation,  that  I  have 
ever  met."  He  called  on  Mr.  Marshall,  a  Baptist,  who  had  read 
Service,  including  the  absolution,  supplemented  by  one  of  Henry 
Ward  Beecher's  sermons!  He  dined  with  Col.  McClure  and  his 
wife,  and  saw  the  ore  crusher.  He  called  once  and  again  on 
Mrs.  Donaldson  who  was  near  death,  but  who  held  out  her  skele- 
ton hand,  pressed  his,  and  looked  her  thanks,  so  that  the  Bishop 
came  away  in  tears. 

It  was  of  such  varied  human  hearts  that  the  brave  mission- 
ary Bishop  set  to  build  the  spiritual  house.  He  succeeded.  The 
people  had  organized  in  April  under  the  name  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  and  on  the  Bishop's  coming  improvised  robing  room, 
lectern,  seats,  etc.,  in  an  upper  room.  The  Service  July  21  was 
the  first  ever  held  by  one  of  our  clergy  in  the  Territory.  He 
remained  two  months,  and  so  the  Church  was  founded  in  the 
capital  of  Montana. 


12  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

But  in  the  meantime  Bishop  Tuttle  and  Mr.  Goddard  went, 
August  6,  to  Helena  which  was  destined  to  supplant  Virginia 
City,  and  become  the  capital  and  see  city,  where  conditions  were 
more  unquiet.  Life  in  the  streets  was  profane  and  disorderly. 
As  the  Bishop  sat  in  his  room  Sunday  morning  he  heard  freight 
wagons  thundering  by,  auctioneers  shouting  and  the  dance  halls 
were  crowded  with  men  and  women  who  swore  and  drank. 
His  heart  was  filled  with  sadness. 

But  he  at  once  forecast  that  Helena  would  be  the  chief  city. 
He  held  one  service  and  left  Mr.  Goddard  to  continue.  And  he 
writes:  "Now  is  the  time  for  the  Church  to  act.  She  must 
occupy  here  at  once.  If  Mr.  Goddard  does  not  stay  I  shall 
send  off  a  rousing  call  for  a  man  to  come  here  at  once." 

During  this  first  visit  to  Montana  Bishop  Tuttle  made  a 
costly  sacrifice:  He  judged  it  necessary  to  postpone  the  coming 
of  his  wife  and  child  to  another  year.  He  writes  on  September 
12,1867: 

"Do  you  know  what  this  day  is?  It  is  the  anniversary  of 
our  wedding  day.  My  heart  has  been  full  of  love  and  longings, 
and  my  eyes  are  not  entirely  free  from  tears  today.  Two  years 
ago  we  were  made  one  in  God's  holy  sight,  and  in  His  holy  Church. 
Tonight,  when  on  my  knees  in  prayer,  I  shall  with  God's  help 
frame  a  petition  out  of  the  blessing;  and,  thanking  God  for  all 
His  goodness  to  us,  shall  ask  Him  for  the  dear  Saviour's  sake  to 
help  us  two,  in  weal  or  woe,  in  company  or  absence,  so  that  in 
the  world  to  come,  the  home,  we  may  have  life  everlasting." 

IDAHO 

September  23,  1867,  Bishop  Tuttle  left  Virginia  City  for 
his  first  visit  to  Idaho,  "Gem  of  the  Mountains,"  with  one  stop- 
over. He  returned  five  hundred  miles  by  stage  coach  to  Salt 
Lake,  went  east  to  Fort  Bridger,  holding  the  first  religious  service 
ever  held  there,  back  to  Salt  Lake  and  then  four  hundred  miles 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  13 

northwest  to  Boise  City.  "I  arrived  at  Boise  Saturday  after- 
noon, October  12,  with  broken  neck,  bruised  head,  aching  bones, 
sore  throat  and  disturbed  temper.  ...  Of  all  the  un- 
comfortable routes  I  ever  travelled  over,  that  from  Salt  Lake  to 
Boise  is  the  worst." 

The  population  of  Idaho  was  in  three  districts:  a  mining 
region  in  the  north;  another,  "Boise  Basin,"  in  the  southwest; 
and  a  Mormon  farming  region  in  the  southeast.  At  first  his 
work  was  limited  to  the  Boise  Basin. 

At  Boise  City  he  found  a  plain  frame  Church,  built  by 
the  Rev.  Michael  Fackler  in  1866.  The  Bishop  wrote,  "St. 
Michael's  is  quite  Church-like.  The  singing  and  responses  are 
hearty  and  good.  I  was  much  pleased  on  Sunday.  I  felt  more  as 
if  I  were  in  Church  than  I  had  done  since  I  left  Denver.  At 
the  morning  service  I  confirmed  five." 

The  next  call  was  sixty-five  miles  southwest  to  Silver  City. 
They  came  through  a  hostile  Indian  country.  There  he  found 
three  male  and  six  female  communicants,  and  a  Sunday  School, 
a  "Union  School,"  which  he  took  under  the  care  of  the  Church. 
The  Services  were  held  in  the  "Orofino"  Saloon,  an  old  deserted 
drinking  place.  The  population  was  about  1,000,  and  there  was 
no  religious  minister.  On  the  return  to  Boise,  they  took  in  two 
men  who  had  just  escaped  from  the  Indians,  the  driver  having 
been  shot  dead. 

The  road  to  Idaho  City,  forty  miles  away,  was  one  of  the 
wildest  and  roughest  he  had  ever  been  on.  It  was  a  diversified 
town.  Kanakas  were  among  the  first  settlers,  and  named  the 
place  Owyhee,  i.  e.,  Hawaii.  The  population  was  about  2,500, 
but  in  and  about  the  town  were  3,000  Chinamen.  And  it  was  a 
disorderly  town,  with  horse  racing  and  betting  in  the  streets  on 
Sunday,  "a  fair  specimen  of  pandemonium."  The  men  of  in- 
telligence there  were  all  tinctured  with  rationalism,  some  clever, 
college-bred,  and  gentlemanly.     Many  violent  and  bloody  deeds 


14  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

had  been  committed,  though  there  had  never  been  such  a  for- 
midable, organized  band  of  miscreants  as  in  Montana. 

On  Sunday  night  he  confirmed  two  women,  and  Monday 
visited  a  dying  miner  who  said  of  the  prayers,  "Sweet!  Sweet!" 
Twenty-four  persons  subscribed  $1,400  for  a  pastor's  salary, 
but  for  some  years  Silver  City  and  Idaho  City  were  served  by 
an  occasional  visit  from  Mr.  Miller,  and  the  Bishop's  yearly 
visitation. 

On  his  return  to  Boise  City  he  completed  arrangements  for 
the  settlement  of  Mr.  Miller  as  resident  pastor,  and  Miss  Gillespie 
as  teacher  of  a  parish  school  which  opened  with  fifteen  scholars. 
This  done,  he  returned  to  Virginia  City,  Montana. 

Summing  up  the  first  visitation  we  find  that  in  Utah  Bishop 
Tuttle  had  found  services  begun  in  Salt  Lake  City,  with  a 
Sunday  School,  that  he  opened  a  day  school,  and  that  he  visited 
Fort  Bridger;  that  in  Montana  he  had  found  St.  Paul's  Church 
organized  in  Virginia  City,  and  that  he  visited  Helena;  that  in 
Idaho  he  had  found  St.  Michael's  Church  in  Boise  City,  that  he 
opened  a  school  there,  and  that  he  visited  Silver  City  and  Idaho 
City.  One  cloud  had  appeared:  he  heard  from  Utah  that  the 
Mormons  had  refused  to  sell  any  land  to  the  Church:  and  yet 
it  was  in  Utah  that  he  was  to  do  his  most  famous  work. 


CONFLICTS  AND   VICTORIES 

Bishop  Tuttle's  name  will  stand  in  American  Church  history 
as  the  great,  ideal  Missionary  Bishop.  The  story  of  the  progress 
of  his  work  in  his  vast  jurisdiction  is  one  of  its  most  interesting 
chapters.  The  best  effect  of  this  sketch  will  be  to  inspire  the  read- 
ing of  the  "Reminiscences  of  a  Missionary  Bishop."  The  sketch 
itself  must  be  brief. 

To  pursue  the  story:  Bishop  Tuttle  lived  in  Virginia  City, 
Montana,  during  the  winter  of  1867-8. 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  IS 

That  winter  was  probably  sharper  with  spiritual  pain  than 
any  other  of  his  life. 

Physically  it  was  tolerable,  though  a  log  cabin  with  a  small 
sheet  iron  stove,  a  pine  bedstead,  a  table,  a  lounge  and  an  easy 
chair  were  a  meagre  substitute  for  the  substantial  comforts  of 
Morris,  and  Dick,  the  cat,  could  not  quite  fill  the  void  of  his 
absent  wife  and  child.  The  climate  was  magnificent  and  his 
health  superb. 

It  was  the  spiritual  iniquity  of  the  town  that  pierced  his 
heart.  One  would  hesitate  to  indicate  the  condition  of  such  a 
community  in  this,  our  America,  if  it  had  not  been  described  by 
its  loving  Bishop.  Men  were  kind  to  him  personally,  but  he  was 
appalled  to  discover  how  almost  universally  given  up  they  were 
to  vicious  practices.  He  was  sent  as  an  apostle  of  Christ  to  win 
them  to  God,  but  in  eight  months  he  did  not  find  one  person  fit 
for  confirmation.  Yet  he  never  ceased  to  love  them,  and  writes: 
"I  find  myself  thinking  of  the  year  I  spent  in  Virginia  City  as 
perhaps  the  most  valuable  one  of  my  missionary  experience. 
It  furnished  me  ground  for  full  sympathy  with  the  clergy  of  the 
border.  ...  It  taught  me  loving  forbearance  toward  wicked 
people.  ...  It  gave  me  a  useful  lesson  of  patience  under 
small  gains  and  slow  results.  ...  So  count  I  my  year  of 
cabin  life  in  Virginia  City  a  blessing.  It  made  me  tenderer, 
broader,  sturdier,  and  laid  up  in  my  heart  a  reservoir  of  sym- 
pathy and  love."  He  might  have  added  what  appears  in  his 
letters,  that  it  strengthened  the  power  of  his  supplications 
before  the  throne  of  Almighty  God. 

And  difficulties  were  offset  by  encouragements.  He  was 
cheered  by  the  fidelity  of  his  "only  faithful  Churchman  here, 
Major  Veale."  A  poor,  honest  man,  forty  years  old,  used  to  come 
for  counsel.  A  youth  in  his  teens  was  and  ever  remained  true. 
An  old  German  wood-sawyer  brought  devotion  and  affection 
An  Irish  Presbyterian  would  come  twenty  miles  for  prayer  and 
converse.    These  were  individual  consolations. 


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Moreover,  he  was  able  to  open  a  Sunday  School  with  four 
teachers  and  twenty-seven  scholars,  which  grew  to  nine  teachers 
and  fifty-three  scholars. 

And  his  quick  wit  achieved  a  master-stroke.  A  Methodist 
minister,  Mr.  King,  had  come,  and  in  a  fortnight  set  to  work  to 
build  a  Church.  The  frame  was  up  when  the  minister  left. 
Bishop  Tuttle  gave  $500,  passed  a  subscription  book,  secured 
the  needed  funds,  bought  in  the  property,  finished  the  edifice 
and  May  24,  1868,  occupied  St.  Paul's  Church  with  all  bills  paid 
and  a  surplus  of  sixteen  dollars. 

Monday  afternoon,  June  1,  1868,  came  another  lightning 
flash  within  his  sky  so  shadowed  with  clouds,  this  telegram: 
"St.  Louis,  Mo.,  May  30,  1868.  You  were  unanimously  elected 
Bishop  of  Missouri  on  the  first  ballot.  M.  Schuyler,  President 
Convention." 

"I  kneeled  down  and  prayed  God  to  help  me.  Wifeless, 
friendless,  at  least  counsellorless,  as  I  am  here,  it  is  hard  for  me 
to  face  the  responsibility  of  decision  of  acceptance  or  declination." 

The  Bishop  of  the  Rockies  declined  the  call. 

The  story  of  1868-9  must  be  a  swift  record  of  important 
events,  culminating  in  a  picturesque  action  followed  by  the 
happiest  results. 

Bishop  Tuttle  went  to  Helena.  He  made  seven  episcopal 
visitations  in  Montana  that  summer,  and  went  also  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  confirmed  twenty;  to  Idaho  City,  and  to  Boise, 
confirming  nine;    and  vSilver  City  with  two  confirmations. 

September  8  he  started  for  the  East  to  bring  back  his  wife  and 
child.  October  6  he  went  to  New  York  to  attend  his  first  General 
Convention,  and  as  member  of  the  House  of  Bishops.  In  the 
prime  of  vigilant  manhood  he  observed  his  brother  prelates 
of  the  House  with  keen  appreciativeness.  At  the  great  mission- 
ary meeting  his  three-minute  speech  was  received  with  applause 
after  applause.     When  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Missions 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  17 

he  pleaded  that  his  time  might  not  be  taken  for  speaking  in  the 
East  he  won  a  benefactor  for  hfe,  Miss  Mary  Coles  of  Phil- 
adelphia. 

When  Mrs.  Tuttle  came  to  Helena  she  was  surprised  to  see 
ladies  who  called  upon  her  arrayed  in  silk  and  adorned  with 
gold  and  jewels.  She,  as  they,  largely  did  her  own  housework. 
There  were  a  few  of  refinement,  cultivation,  and  education. 
Men  outnumbered  women  seven  or  ten  to  one. 

Bishop  Tuttle  began  services  in  the  court  house.  He  opened 
a  Sunday  School  with  four  teachers  and  fourteen  scholars.  He 
visited  all  people  in  their  places  of  business  or  homes. 

He  found  fourteen  communicants  of  the  Church  and  added 
twelve  by  confirmation.  He  insisted  that  the  people  pay  him 
a  salary,  and  used  the  income  for  Church  work.  He  bought  the 
lot  where  St.  Peter's  Church  was  built.  The  tenor  of  an  active 
life  was  enlivened  by  an  earthquake.  It  was  no  longer  sad  and 
it  was  not  dull.  The  Mormons  in  Salt  Lake  City  still  refused 
to  sell  land,  but  in  every  place  he  had  visited  Church  life  was 
quickened.    The  tide  was  rising. 

Finally  came  one  of  those  events  which  makes  or  mars  the 
man,  and  with  the  man,  his  work. 

April  28,  1869,  a  fire  broke  out  as  great  for  Helena  as  that 
of  1871  for  Chicago.  The  Bishop  hastily  dressed  and  ran  to  the 
scene.  He  threw  himself  into  the. work  of  fighting  the  fire.  It 
seemed  as  if  the  flames  would  destroy  the  town.  They  were 
sweeping  the  buildings  of  pitchy  pine  and  fir  lumber.  They 
threatened  a  valuable  drug  store.  The  proprietor  could  not  shut 
the  iron  door  of  the  store-room.  The  Bishop  ran  to  him  in  the 
scorching  heat  and  they  swung  and  fastened  it.  The  fire  finally 
reached  two  good  brick  buildings.  Mrs.  Tuttle  was  sending 
gallons  of  hot  coffee  all  night  long  from  the  home  to  which  her 
husband  had  not  returned.  The  flames  were  checked  at  the 
brick  buildings  by  blankets  kept  wet  by  men  on  the  roof  to 


18  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

whom  were  sent  up  buckets  of  water,  masses  of  ice,  and  huge 
balls  of  snow. 

When  morning  dawned  the  town  beyond  had  been  saved. 
And  on  the  top  of  one  of  the  brick  buildings  silhouetted  against 
the  grey  sky  appeared  three  figures  gilded  by  the  rising  sun: 
Gentle  Joe,  a  leading  gambler;  Bitter  Root  Bill,  a  noted  des- 
perado;   and  between  them  the  Bishop  of  Montana. 

The  multitude  below  gave  a  great  shout,  recognizing  them 
as  their  deliverers,  and  from  that  hour  Bishop  Tuttle  was  recog- 
nized as  their  man  by  the  people  of  that  whole  region,  among 
whom  the  story  spread  far  and  wide. 

After  two  years'  residence  in  Montana,  Bishop  Tuttle 
decided  to  make  vSalt  Lake  City  his  Episcopal  seat.  It  was  much 
the  largest  city  in  his  jurisdiction,  and  all  stage  coach  lines 
radiated  from  it.  It  is  evident,  also,  that  he  longed  to  grapple 
with  the  problem  of  Mormanism. 

CHURCH   SCHOOI-S   IN    UTAH 

One  of  the  most  effective  agencies,  in  his  judgment,  was  the 
establishment  of  Church  schools.     He  writes: 

"On  my  reaching  Salt  Lake  City  for  the  first  (time)  in  1867, 
I  stayed  only  ten  days.  Those  ten  days,  however,  sufficed 
to  enable  me  to  discover  and  to  approve  heartily  the  wisdom  of 
Messrs.  Foote  and  Haskins  in  deciding  that  a  day  school  would 
be  a  most  effective  instrumentality  in  doing  good  missionary 
work." 

Those  earnest  helpers  had  followed  the  Bishop's  call  to  the 
West,  but  actually  preceded  him  a  few  weeks  in  journeying  to 
Utah,  and  we  have  seen  how  they  had  founded  St.  Mark's 
School  on  the  basis  of  Dr.  Robinson's  "Union  Sunday  School." 

Bishop  Tuttle  could  fight  fire,  but  he  could  also  himself 
teach  school.  He  was  a  scholar  and  a  master.  When  fifteen 
years  of  age  he  was  a  pupil  teacher.    In  New  York  students  days 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  19 

he  was  busy  as  a  tutor.  He  became  assistant  teacher  in  the 
Columbia  College  Grammar  School.  He  did  private  teaching  in 
Morris,  and  gave  much  instruction  to  students  for  the  Ministry. 

The  keynote  of  the  School,  as  in  the  Church  services,  was 
not  to  attack  Mormonism,  but  to  show  a  better  way,  and  in 
following  this  out  instruction  classes  also  met  in  the  evening 
preparatory  to  baptism. 

The  field  was  open,  because  there  was  no  public  school  sys- 
tem in  Utah,  and  to  St.  Mark's  School  Gentiles,  Jews,  apostate 
Mormons,  and  some  orthodox  Mormons  sent  their  children. 

Brigham  Young  professed  readiness  to  help  them,  but  his 
hypocrisy  was  soon  revealed.  Nevertheless  they  secured  a 
building  and  opened  the  school. 

In  this  school  for  over  a  year  Bishop  Tuttle  taught  arith- 
metic, algebra,  geometry,  Latin,  and  Greek  throughout  the  morn- 
ings. 

In  time,  to  this  St.  Mark's  School  was  added  St.  Mark's 
School  for  Girls,  also  a  day  school,  and  Rowland  Hall,  a  boarding 
and  day  school  for  girls. 

At  Ogden  Rev.  J.  L.  Gillogley  established  the  School  of  the 
Good  Shepherd,  and  a  school  at  Plain  City.  The  Rev.  W.  H. 
Stoy  started  St.  John's  School,  Logan. 

In  reviewing.  Bishop  Tuttle  says:  "The  schools  of  my  day 
certainly  did  definite  and  far-reaching  good.  ...  In  the 
course  of  my  inspection  I  had  to  do  with  more  than  a  hundred 
teachers  and  more  than  four  thousand  scholars." 

The  results  justified  the  prediction  of  Secretary  of  State, 
William  H.  Seward,  who  said  that  "the  church  and  schools  under- 
taken by  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Salt  Lake  City  would  do  more 
to  solve  the  Mormon  problem  than  the  army  and  Congress  of 
the  United  States  combined." 

THE   CATHEDRAL 

St.   Mark's  Cathedral  was  the  next  great  work.     Bishop 


20  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

Tuttle  expresses  the  view  that  it  is  not  wise  for  us  to  copy  the 
EngHsh  cathedral  system,  and  considers  it  fortunate  that  in 
the  cathedrals  of  the  American  Church  there  is  great  diversity 
of  type.  He  advances  as  reasons  for  a  cathedral,  that  the  pastor 
element  in  a  Bishop  should  not  suffer  atrophy,  that  he  should 
have  a  Church  where  he  can  officiate  of  his  own  right,  that  he 
may  have  this  opportunity  to  seek  candidates  for  the  Ministry, 
and  that  he  may  establish  his  chosen  type  of  the  rites  of  worship. 
The  cathedral  may  also  be  a  centre  of  diocesan  unity. 

It  was  with  these  principles  in  mind  that  St.  Mark's  Church, 
for  the  founding  of  which  Bishop  Tuttle  gives  the  highest  credit 
to  the  Rev.  George  W.  Foote,  was  converted  into  St.  Mark's 
Cathedral.  The  design  was  one  of  the  last  by  the  elder  Upjohn, 
builder  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York.  The  corner  stone  was 
laid  July  30,  1870.  The  basement  was  used  imtil  September  3, 
1871,  when  the  Church  proper  was  occupied. 

From  the  meetings  in  the  Tabernacle,  which,  for  all  their 
enthusiasm,  are  shot  through  with  strange  fanaticism,  the 
Christian  worshipper  enters  St.  Mark's  Cathedral  to  find  the 
winning  beauty  and  the  mystic  devotion  of  the  Apostolic  Church. 


ST.    MARK  S   HOSPITAL 

"I  was  sick  and  ye  visited  Me."  These  words  were  the  basis 
on  which  Bishop  Tuttle's  staunch  friends,  Rev.  Mr.  Kirby, 
Major  Wilkes,  and  Dr.  Hamilton,  founded  St.  Mark's  Hospital. 

Before  the  railroads  were  built  and  the  mines  opened  there 
were  few  accidents  in  Utah,  and  the  sick  were  cared  tor  by 
voluntary  nursing  and  by  the  Mormon  district  system,  three 
physicians  only  serving  Salt  Lake  City. 

With  the  development  of  mechanical  industries,  shattered 
limbs  and  torn  bodies  called  for  specific  help.  So  the  hospital 
was  begun. 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  21 

Its  financing  was  a  model  of  self-  help.  Bishop  Tuttle  records 
with  honest  pride  the  fact  that  "St.  Mark's  hospital  used  the 
kindly  eastern  nursing  bottle  to  a  very  small  extent  indeed." 

The  doors  of  the  hospital  were  open  without  condition  to  all 
the  people  of  Utah.  In  return,  all  contributed  to  its  support. 
Most  of  the  large  mining  companies  gave  yearly  subscriptions. 
The  men  paid  each  a  dollar  a  month.  Then  there  was  the 
yearly  "Hospital  Ball."  In  nine  years  2,308  patients  were  cared 
for.  Less  than  $1,500  came  from  abroad  of  the  $64,870.98 
expended,  and  the  current  debt  was  only  $997.91.  It  was  a 
master  piece  of  philanthropic  finance. 

The  patients  received  religious  and  personal  ministration. 
The  Bishop  had  daily  prayers  and  a  Sunday  afternoon  service, 
while  visitors  frequently  went  around  the  wards. 

The  results  were  all  that  could  have  been  expected.  The 
kindliest  feelings  and  the  most  generous  helpfulness  were  shown 
by  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men.  After  a  time  the  Roman 
Catholics  and  the  Mormons  followed  the  example  of  the  Church, 
and  each  erected  a  hospital. 

This  was,  perhaps,  the  most  influential  of  the  Church's 
works  in  introducing  a  gentler  spirit  into  the  stronghold  of  that 
hard  fanaticism.  Mormonism  is  not  dead,  and  it  is  not  due  to 
the  Church  alone  that  whereas,  when  Bishop  Tuttle  came  there 
was  only  about  one  non-Mormon  to  a  thousand  Mormons,  now 
the  proportion  of  non- Mormons  is  two  to  one  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
But  the  hard  ice  was  to  some  extent  melted  from  within.  Liberty 
of  action  and  thought  were  made  possible.  The  intellectual  life 
quickened  stony  minds  through  the  schools.  Christian  worship 
mollified  fanaticism.  The  Cathedral  linked  that  out-post  of 
the  self-exiled  with  the  Historic  Church.  And  finally  St.  Mark's 
Hospital  ministered  to  strangers  with  the  healing  touch  of  the 
Saviour.    The  prophecy  of  William  H.  Seward  has  been  fulfilled. 


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CONTINUED   WORK  IN    MONTANA   AND   IDAHO 

During  all  these  years  from  1867  to  1886,  Bishop  Tuttle 
was  not  only  wrestling  with  the  problem  of  Mormonism  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  but  was  making  his  episcopal  visitations  in  the 
rest  of  Utah,  in  Montana  and  in  Idaho.  He  became  convinced 
that  Montana  should  be  set  apart,  and  writes,  "the  real  good  of 
the  Church  calls  for  this  change.  Until  it  can  be  made  I  must 
serve  the  three  territories  as  best  I  can.  I  am  grieved  at  heart 
that  I  am  not  well  serving  them." 

But  why  was  he  not  well  serving  them?  It  was  because  by 
his  own  great  work  he  had  so  enlarged  the  field.  We  have  seen 
that  in  his  first  episcopal  journey  he  had  found  only  seven  places 
which  seemed  to  call  for  visitation.  Salt  Lake  City  and  Fort 
Bridger  in  Utah;  Boise  City,  Idaho  City  and  Silver  City  in 
Idaho;    and  Virginia  City  and  Helena  in  Montana. 

During  twenty  years  Bishop  Tuttle  had  been  traveling  all 
over  that  land,  by  stage  coach,  on  horse-back  and  afoot,  usually 
in  hardship,  often  in  peril,  and  sometimes  in  danger  from  the 
Indians.  He  had  increased  the  yearly  visitations  from  seven 
to  one  hundred  and  twenty- one,  eighteen  fold,  fifty-two  in 
Montana,  fifty  in  Idaho,  and  nineteen  in  Utah. 

It  is  quite  impossible  to  give  here  even  a  condensed  view  of 
that  vast  work.    These  simple  figures  must  suffice. 

MONTANA    SET   APART 

In  the  General  Convention  of  1880  on  motion  of  the  Bishop 
of  Montana,  it  was 

"  Resolved:  That  the  present  Bishop  of  Montana  be  assigned 
to  the  charge  of  Utah  and  Idaho,  and  be  styled  the  Bishop  of 
Utah  with  jurisdiction  in  Idaho." 

Immediately  afterward  on  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Utah 
it  was 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  23 

"Resolved:  That  this  House  will  proceed  as  the  Order  of 
the  Day  to  nominate  a  Missionary  Bishop  for  Montana,  on 
Thursday  next,  October  21,  at  12  M." 

It  was  the  same  Bishop  Tuttle  who  made  both  these  motions, 
for  on  the  passage  of  the  first  he  had  become  Bishop  of  Utah. 

The  Rev.  Leigh  Richmond  Brewer  was  nominated  and 
elected  Missionary  Bishop  of  Montana,  the  story  of  whose  work 
is  one  of  the  manliest  in  our  Church  history. 


PART  II 

THE   BISHOP   OF   MISSOURI 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  27 


THE   SECOND   CALL  TO   MISSOURI 


In  the  Diocese  of  Missouri  was  a  venerated  presbyter  whose 
heart  and  mind  had  never  been  forgetful  of  Bishop  Tuttle  since 
he  had  informed  him  of  his  unanimous  election  as  Bishop  of 
Missouri,  modestly  signing-  himself,  "M.  Schuyler,  President 
Convention."  His  picture  shows  a  singular  personal  resemblance 
to  Bishop  Tuttle  himself.  It  became  his  pleasant  duty  to  send 
another  telegram : 

"St.  Louis,  Mo.,  May  26,  1886. 

"By  unanimous  vote  of  the  Diocese  of  Missouri  you  have 
been  elected  their  Bishop.    Will  you  accept?    Please  answer. 

"M.  Schuyler, 
President  of  the  Convention .'' 

This  time,  following  his  sense  of  duty  again,  and  by  advice 
of  friends,  he  accepted,  and  the  Right  Reverend  Daniel  Sylvester 
Tuttle,  D.  D.,  became  the  Third  Bishop  of  Missouri. 

He  came  in  the  plentitude  of  his  mental  and  spiritual  powers, 
at  the  peak  of  his  physical  vigor. 

We  may  pause  for  a  moment  to  note  again  the  value  to  the 
Church  of  his  bodily  strength.  Not  once  or  twice  has  the  flame 
of  spiritual  fire  burned  so  ardently  in  a  waxen  frame  as  to  kindle 
countless  souls.  Yet  the  heart  of  every  reader  of  Bishop  Tuttle's 
life  beats  more  strongly  as  he  thinks  of  that  apostolic  traveller 
who  could  journey  from  dawn  to  late  afternoon  with  never  a 
taste  of  food,  growing  hungrier  and  hungrier,  but  with  no  digestive 
injury  and  no  headache.  Such  was  the  man  who,  after  twenty 
years  of  rugged  frontier  work,  and  forty  thousand  miles  of  stage 
coach  travel,  became  the  Bishop  of  Missouri. 

He  himself  says  in  one  of  his  later  Convention  Addresses, 


28  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

that  most  of  his  work  up  to  that  time  has  been  in  the  country, 
and  he  reveals  the  studious  reflection  v/hich  he  found  necessary 
to  apply  to  the  shifting  and  puzzling  problems  of  the  city. 

CHURCH   EXTENSION 

Almost  his  very  first  move  in  strategy  reveals  the  ecclesiasti- 
cal general.  He  called  for  the  division  of  the  Diocese.  That  is 
to  say,  he  suggested  it  in  convincing  terms.  It  was  not  a  con- 
fession ot  weakness.  It  was  a  call  for  extended  opportunity. 
Kansas  City  was  rapidly  advancing  in  strength  and  numbers. 
Other  communities  were  growing.  The  number  of  souls  in  the 
care  of  the  Bishop  of  Missouri  was  very  great.  The  work  would 
be  better  done  if  the  Diocese  were  divided. 

Calling  attention  to  the  fact  that  Missouri  had  one  hundred 
and  fourteen  counties,  in  fifty-three  of  which  the  Church  was  at 
work,  and  in  sixty- one  of  which  it  was  not,  he  asked  for  some 
means  of  extended  service,  either  by  the  appointment  of  a 
missionary  to  help  him,  or  by  division.  Both  recommendations 
were  afterward  carried  into  effect. 

NEW   PARISHES 

At  this  time  also  he  suggested  the  foundation  of  new  parishes 
in  cities,  appealing  to  the  older  parishes  to  make  some  sacrifices 
of  numbers,  and  help  the  new  work  forward. 

And  in  this  Address  he  sounded  the  trumpet  call  which  was 
to  ring  through  all  his  subsequent  Addresses  —  the  earnest,  im- 
passioned, inspired  call  for  incessant  and  energetic  missionary 
endeavor.  It  is  another  revelation  of  Bishop  Tuttle's  great 
character.  There  is  not  a  thought  of  settling  into  a  position  of 
dignified  ecclesiastical  ease.  The  same  Elijah  whirlwind  which 
had  blown  through  the  Rocky  Mountains,  was  now  to  blow 
through  the  streets  of  St.  Louis,  and  over  the  varied  and  pic- 
turesque counties  of  Missouri.     He  said  he  was  not  ashamed  of 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  29 

the  rock  from  whence  he  was  hewn.  The  Missionary  Bishop  of 
the  Rockies  had  now  become  the  Missionary  Bishop  of  the 
populous  cities  and  the  smiling  farms.  Over  and  over  again,  in 
ever  new  terms,  but  with  ever  the  same  zeal,  this  trumpet  call 
was  sounded.  To  quote  all  he  thus  said  would  be  to  fill  a  volume. 
No  one  can  doubt  that  St.  Louis  and  Missouri  responded.  Who 
can  fear  that  its  echoes  will  ever  die  away? 

CHRIST   CHURCH   CATHEDRAL 

Another  masterpiece  of  ecclesiastical  strategy  in  St.  Louis 
was  the  elevation  of  the  Parish  of  Christ  Church,  in  1888-9, 
to  the  dignity  of  Christ  Church  Cathedral  Corporation.  The 
American  Church  has  been  late  in  creating  Cathedral  Churches. 
Bishop  Williams  of  Connecticut  once  said  that  one  reason  why 
he  built  St.  Luke's  Chapel  at  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  was 
that  when  he  was  made  Bishop  there  was  not  one  Church  in  the 
Diocese  where  he  could  stand  and  speak  as  in  his  own  Church. 
That  was  a  good  reason.  The  American  Church  has  perhaps 
feared  over-centralization.  Bishop  Greer  often  spoke  of  the 
Cathedral  as  an  influence  in  breaking  down  the  narrow  walls  of 
parochialism.  The  Cathedral,  in  centralizing,  was  to  universal- 
ize the  work  of  the  Church.  Such  is  Christ  Church  Cathedral 
in  St.  Louis. 

CONVENTION    ADDRESSES 

As  we  pass  from  Bishop  Tuttle's  work  in  his  Missionary 
Jurisdiction  to  that  in  the  Diocese  of  Missouri,  the  character  of 
the  story  changes.  There  it  was  adventurous  travel.  Here  it 
is  regular  diocesan  visitation.  In  Missouri  we  become  intensely 
interested  in  his  Convention  Addresses.  In  these  he  states  the 
great  principles  of  his  episcopal  action,  and  the  Addresses  are 
also  illuminated  with  evidences  of  personal  interest  in  those  com- 
mitted to  his  care,  and  in  his  brethren  in  the  sacred  ministry. 


30  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

What  were  almost  the  initial  paragraphs  in  all  the  Ad- 
dresses would,  if  compiled,  form  an  admirable  Calendar  of 
Saints,  Bishop  Tuttle's  loving  remembrances  of  the  faithful 
Bishops  and  other  Clergy,  and  of  the  lights  of  the  world  in  their 
several  generations  in  the  Congregations  committed  to  their 
charge,  who  had  entered  into  rest.  They  are  his  very  best  utter- 
ances, in  tenderness,  in  affection,  in  spiritual  insight  into  the 
meaning  of  Christian  lives,  and  in  wise  appreciation  of  the  par- 
ticular personal  values  of  each.  It  is  a  portrait  gallery  of  our 
noblest  and  our  best,  painted  by  a  literary  artist  of  his  native 
tongue. 

LOYALTY  TO   CHURCH   LAW 

Loyalty  to  law  was  another  counsel  given  repeatedly  and 
unreservedly.  He  invokes  the  great  dictum  of  Hooker  beginning: 
'Of  law  there  can  be  no  less  acknowledged  than  that  her 
seat  is  in  the  bosom  of  God." 

He  urges  this  loyalty  to  law  upon  the  treasurers  of  trust 
fundS;  speaking  again  and  again  of  their  absolute  duty  to  use 
such  funds  exactly  and  always  in  the  manner  designated. 

Of  another  loyalty  he  was  as  clear,  spoke  more  often,  and 
more  fully:  loyalty  to  the  Prayer  Book.  Whether  the  Prayer 
Book  is  unrevised,  in  the  process  of  revision,  or  with  revision 
accomplished,  he  calls  for  its  use  as  by  Church  law  established. 
He  sees  no  excuse  for  omitting  the  Confession  and  Absolution,  a 
Lesson,  or  the  Ten  Commandments.  It  is  to  be  used  exactly  as 
it  is  written,  fully  and  precisely,  and  this  not  from  the  viewpoint 
of  a  meticulous  rubrician  but  because  it  serves  a  practical  pur- 
pose: 

"If  there  be  abroad  a  spirit  of  unrest  and  disintegration  and 
playing  fast  and  loose  with  Catholic  truth,  my  own  watchword 
for  protection  and  battle  cry  of  defense  would  be  the  Prayer 
Book.    Loyalty  to  the  Prayer  Book  sums  up  loyalty  to  Church 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  31 

faith  and  to  Church  history,  to  Church  principle  and  Church 
habits  and  Church  worship.  The  Prayer  Book  to  us,  in  America, 
I  am  accustomed  to  regard  as  the  bulwark." 


CONFIRMATION 

Another  message  which  the  Bishop  of  Missouri  steadfastly 
proclaimed  was  the  duty  of  Confirmation.  He  does  indeed 
repeatedly  disclaim  desire  for  numbers  alone.  Yet  he  shows 
his  conviction  that  a  sound  condition  of  the  Diocese  would  be 
manifested  in  a  normal  number  of  confirmations.  Quoting 
another  Bishop,  he  favors  his  idea  that  the  normal  number  each 
year  would  be  one  to  ten  for  the  previously  existing  communi- 
cant list.  Year  by  year  he  notes  whether  the  Confirmations  have 
equalled  that  ratio,  or  fallen  below  it.  He  urges  the  Clergy  to 
speak  to  people  about  it,  not  waiting  for  their  initiative  only. 
In  connection  with  this  he  counsels  earnest  and  careful  prepara- 
tion of  the  candidates.  It  would  appear  that  this  continued 
appeal  brought  good  results  in  the  Diocese. 

THE   MISSIONARY   HOST 

Incidentally  to  this,  and  in  accord  with  the  Bishop's  mis- 
sionary zeal,  may  be  mentioned  his  love  for  the  "Missionary 
Host."  This  is  perhaps  the  most  picturesque  title  which  has 
been  applied  to  the  gathering  of  the  Church  School  children  of  a 
Diocese  in  corporate  worship.  The  love  of  their  Father  in  God 
overflows  for  these  lambs  of  the  flock.  He  rejoices  in  the  yearly 
increase  of  the  offerings  for  his  great  passion,  Missions,  and  his 
language  breaks  out  into  exuberance  when  the  "Host"  becomes  so 
large  that  the  Cathedral  cannot  contain  it. 

This  fatherly  episcopal  solicitude  for  the  "Host"  is  extended 
to  all  the  institutions  and  organizations  of  the  Diocese.  It  is 
seen  in  his  detailed  remarks  about  parishes  and  individuals. 


32  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

In  fact  his  great  lion  heart  carried  all  to  the  Cathedral  altar, 
as  Aaron  bore  on  his  breastplate  the  jewelled  names  of  the  Tribes 
of  Israel.  To  speak  of  all  would  be  simply  to  reprint  the  whole  of 
his  Convention  Addresses. 

It  is  here  that  our  imagination  must  fill  the  silence.  The 
most  we  can  do  in  narrating  the  life  of  a  man  like  Daniel  Sylvester 
Tuttle  is  to  indicate  the  great  springs  of  his  character,  allude  to 
some  of  his  chief  messages,  and  principal  acts,  and  then  remem- 
ber that  all  the  time,  every  day  and  every  evening,  he  was  at 
work,  incessantly  because  his  bodily  health  was  so  strong,  and 
energetically  because  his  soul  was  inspired  with  the  Divine  mean- 
ing of  his  great  Mission.  It  was  one  long  and  glorious  effort  to 
fulfil  his  Father's  Will. 

Thus,  to  use  Bergson's  historical  simile,  we  may  only  strive 
to  cast  upon  the  screen  of  our  minds  a  few  cinematographic  im- 
pressions of  what  was  continuous  activity. 

VISITS   TO  THE   LAMBETH   CONFERENCE 

Two  of  these  were  his  visits  to  England  on  the  occasion  of 
the  Lambeth  Conference,  which  is  a  decennial  gathering  in 
London  of  all  the  Bishops  of  the  Anglican  Apostolic  Succession, 
and  the  Pan-Anglican  Conference  of  Missions  in  conjunction  with 
it. 

The  first  of  these  visits  was  in  1888.  His  report  of  this  in 
the  Address  of  that  year  shows  how  his  mind  responded  to  the 
impression  of  the  great  Church  of  England,  in  the  richness  of 
is  historic  past,  and  in  the  universality  of  its  active  present.  We 
have  no  detailed  account  of  the  thoughts  which  filled  his  soul 
as  he  stood  in  the  ancient  Abbeys  and  Cathedrals,  but  we  can 
imagine  the  scenes  which  there  unfolded  themselves  from  the 
days  of  Augustine  and  Paulinus  to  those  of  McGee  and  Temple. 

Of  the  present  he  is  concise  but  more  detailed.  He  speaks 
with  delight  of  the  great  scholars  and  ecclesiastics  whom  he 


The  Bishop  of  Missouri 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  33 

heard  and  met,  of  the  three  schools  of  thought,  High  Church, 
Low  Church  and  Broad  Church.  And  in  his  own  words  we  see 
the  result  we  should  have  expected  of  this  great  assembly  on 
the  mind  of  the  American  Churchman  who  knew  the  diapason  of 
his  national  life  from  the  City  of  New  York  to  the  mining  camp 
of  the  Rockies.     He  says: 

"As  a  man,  the  horizon  of  my  thoughts  was  widened  and 
my  heart  was  warmed. 

"As  a  Bishop,  my  mind  was  steadied,  my  trust  was  deepened, 
my  soul  was  fed. 

"As  an  American,  I  could  not  but  mark  how  the  thoughtful 
and  kindly  courtesy,  unfailingly  extended  by  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  to  us  from  this  side  of  the  water,  was  reflected 
and  multiplied  and  continued  .  .  .  everywhere  in  Eng- 
land." 

And,  though  modest  was  his  silence,  we  can  see  in  these 
words  and  in  his  references  to  his  own  addresses  and  sermons  in 
England,  what  a  strong  impression  the  American  Bishop  made 
on  his  English  brethren. 

To  the  next  Conference,  in  1897,  he  set  forth  with  slightly 
disturbed  anticipation. 

It  has  since  been  seen  that  the  equilibrium  of  England's 
greatness  was  then  just  at  the  balancing  point.  Germany  had 
in  fact  begun  the  effort  not  long  afterward  openly  avowed  of 
humbling  her  ancient  commercial  Tival.  Joseph  Chamberlain 
had  replied  with  his  policy  of  a  consolidated  British  Empire. 
For  the  Queen's  Diamond  Jubilee  all  the  pomp  and  pride  of  that 
Empire  had  met  in  London  to  display  to  the  world  the  greatest 
pageant  of  military  force  which  had  ever  marched  on  this  planet, 
while  at  Portsmouth  long  miles  of  warships  proclaimed  Bri- 
tannia's rule  of  the  wave.  Without  question  it  was  a  dehberate 
effort  to  awe  the  world  to  acquiescent  peace.  Within,  however, 
was  a  spirit  of  apprehension,  and  the  next  morning  Kipling's 
'Recessional"  led  the  columns  of  the  London  Times. 


34  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

It  would  not  have  seemed  strange  if  the  Church  of  England 
had  been  touched  by  a  little  of  the  pride  and  the  necessity  of  the 
imperial  spirit. 

Nor  was  it  strange  that,  under  the  circumstances,  one  title 
of  the  subjects  to  be  discussed,  "The  Relation  of  the  Primates 
and  Metropolitans  in  the  Colonies  and  elsewhere  to  the  See  of 
Canterbury,"  should  have  awakened  question  in  America, 
by  those  two  words,  and  elsewhere. 

Bishop  Tuttle  had  dealt  with  the  question  previously  in 
the  Convention  of  May,  1897,  wherein  he  expresses  the  gratitude 
and  loyalty  of  the  daughter  to  the  mother  Church,  but  affirms 
that  there  can  be  no  primacy  of  Canterbury  over  the  American 
Episcopate. 

He  adds  a  warning  against  too  much  fondness  for  Anglican 
custom.s  as  such,  arguing  that  the  American  Church  must  be 
rooted  in  the  character  of  the  American  People. 

But  in  the  Address  of  1898  he  dismisses  the  Canterbury 
peril  with  a  smiling  gesture,  assuring  his  brethren  that  no  im- 
perial design  was  harbored  in  the  primatial  See. 

THE   CHRISTIAN    MAN    AND   WAR 

At  this  time  we  had  entered  on  the  war  with  Spain,  and  in 
the  same  Address  Bishop  Tuttle  gave  his  views  on  the  duty  of 
a  Christian  man  in  war,  as  he  did  afterward  in  the  Great  War. 
The  opinion  of  a  Bishop  and  of  such  a  Bishop,  a  successor  of  the 
Twelve  and  himself  an  Apostle,  holding  the  most  representative 
position  possible  in  Christianity,  is  of  consummate  interest. 
It  is,  in  brief,  that  war  is  one  of  the  most  horrible  of  all  evils, 
but  that  there  may  be  conditions  under  which  it  is  the  duty  of 
a  Christian  man  to  bear  arms  in  defense  of  the  right. 

There  were  two  ways,  according  to  the  critics,  in  which  the 
Church  missed  its  opportunity.  One  was  by  not  plunging  un- 
reservedly into  the  war  at  once.     The  other  was  in  espousing 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  35 

the  war  at  all.  These  criticisms  seem  to  cover  the  errors  of  the 
Church  quite  completely.  Possibly  the  conscientious  judgment 
of  a  Christian  Bishop  may  be  wiser  than  either. 

PRESIDING   BISHOP 

The  time  came,  in  1904,  when  to  his  amazement,  the  one- 
time Bishop  of  the  Rockies  found  himself  the  Presiding  Bishop 
of  the  American  Church.  The  honor  came  to  him  in  course  as 
senior  in  point  of  consecration,  but  the  honor  was  real  and 
the  responsibilities  were  grave. 

The  ability  and  skill  with  which  in  this  capacity  he  presided 
over  the  sessions  of  the  House  of  Bishops  and  other  Church 
assemblies  awakened  admiration.  To  explain  one  cause  of  this 
admiration  it  is  necessary  to  speak  quite  frankly  of  a  physical 
defect.  As  early  as  1892,  in  reviewing  his  twenty-five  years' 
episcopate,  he  had  spoken  of  "faculties  preserved  save  a  slow 
creeping  of  dullness  into  the  hearing  of  the  ear."  This  in  time 
became  almost  total  deafness.  Yet  his  voice  in  public  had  never 
any  strange  intonation.  More  wonderful  still,  he  instantly 
recognized  every  speaker,  and  correctly  followed  debate  and  put 
the  question  as  if  he  had  heard  every  word.  The  secret  was 
that  someone  at  his  side  instantly  jotted  down  on  paper  for  the 
Bishop's  eye  the  business  in  hand.  Bishop  Johnson  writes,  "It 
was  sometimes  one,  sometimes  another.  His  way  was  to  ask 
this,  that,  or  the  other  one  'to  be  ears  for  me.'  "  But  what 
strength  of  composure  and  what  quickness  of  wit  in  one  who 
could  thus,  despite  the  disability,  preside  with  correctness  and 
ease! 

THE   BISHOP  COADJUTOR 

There  came  at  last  the  hour  most  dreaded  by  all  men  of 
action,  when  one  realizes  of  himself,  or  is  kindly  persuaded  by 
his  friends  to  recognize,  that  his  strength  is  no  longer  equal  to 


36  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

his  task.    The  evidence  of  inward  struggle  in  such  a  case  is  some- 
times so  great  as  to  demand  the  kindly  veil  of  charity. 

It  is  one  of  the  manifestations  of  Bishop  Tuttle's  greatness 
that  no  such  agonia  was  seen.  The  strong  man's  just  pride 
appears  in  his  words,  "I  can  go  on  alone  as  I  am,"  "I  do  not  think 
there  is  any  extreme  difficulty  in  so  doing." 

But  he  yielded  gracefully  to  the  persuasions  of  his  friends, 
and  at  the  Convention  of  1911  the  Right  Reverend  Frederick 
Foote  Johnson,  D.  D.,  Missionary  Bishop  of  South  Dakota, 
was  elected  Bishop  Coadjutor  of  Missouri. 

From  that  time  forward  a  new  elation  is  observable  in 
Bishop  Tuttle's  Convention  Addresses.  He  gives  to  his  Co 
adjutor  the  same  warmth  of  affection  which  he  had  always 
evinced  for  co-workers  in  the  vineyard.  He  rejoices  in  the  ex- 
tension of  work  in  the  Diocese  which  was  immediately  evident 
and  steadily  continued.  His  own  words  sum  it  up  better  than 
any  others  could  do,  in  the  Address  of  1913: 

"The  result  has  been,  sweet  relief  to  me  from  overwork, 
freedom  from  that  worry  which  not  seldom  engenders  fretful 
activities  of  impatience  and  unwisdom,  and  a  peaceful  con- 
sciousness that  while  I  cannot  do  this  or  that  or  the  other  thing 
for  the  Diocese,  this  or  that  or  the  other  thing  is  done,  and  is 
done  rightly  and  wisely  and  effectively  by  my  faithful  brother, 
and  so  the  Diocese  does  not  suffer  loss." 

From  this  time  on  the  history  of  Church  extension  in  the 
Diocese  of  Missouri  is  chiefly  the  history  of  the  work  of  Bishop 
Johnson.  If  this  sketch  were  the  history  of  the  Diocese,  we 
should  pass  to  the  story  of  Bishop  Johnson's  work,  and  a  study 
of  his  Convention  Addresses,  so  remarkable  for  their  breadth 
of  vision  combined  with  particularity  of  detail,  expressed  in 
English  flowing  in  eloquence,  and  punctuated  by  words  and 
phrases  which  stand  out  as  high  lights. 

But  as  it  is  the  life  of  Bishop  Tuttle  we  must  limit  ourselves 
to  his  story.     Henceforth  it  is  the  record  of  deepening  affection. 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  37 

high  dignity,  and  accumulating  honors.  Hither  and  thither  and 
yonder  he  went  to  various  important  functions,  where  his  great 
Hon  voice  and  his  great  Hon  presence  fiUed  the  whole  assembly 
with  admiration  and  impressed  every  listener.  Increasingly  he 
was  a  tower  of  strength  to  the  Church  in  America. 

A   BELOVED   CITIZEN    OF   ST.    LOUIS 

Years  before  the  end  the  Bishop  of  Missouri  had  become  a 
leading  figure  in  St.  Louis.  Bishop  Johnson  says  that  he  did 
not  actively  take  part  as  an  officer  in  the  various  city  organiza- 
tions, but  hewed  pretty  close  to  the  line  as  the  Bishop  of  his 
Diocese.  He  adds  that  he  had,  however,  become  an  institution, 
that  no  public  occasion  was  considered  complete  unless  Bishop 
Tuttle  were  present. 

The  time  came  when  his  work  was  drawing  to  its  close,  and 
the  same  spirit  animated  him  which  had  prompted  the  Spirit  of 
Missions  to  say  in  1869 :  "There  is  that  .  .  in  the  range  and 
quality  of  his  work,  (in  Morris)  which  evinced  the  needed  spirit 
and  faculty  for  the  high  office  and  vast  field  to  which  the  Church 
had  called  him." 

It  was  the  spirit  of  his  first  charge  to  the  Diocese  of  Missouri 
in  1886:   "Speak  to  the  children  of  Israel,  that  they  go  forward." 

His  last  word  to  the  Diocese  in  1922,  more  than  a  whole 
generation  after,  was:  "Dear  Brethren  all,  let  us  stand  by  the 
Church  in  her  great  missionary  work.  And  stand  steady.  In 
love  and  loyalty.  With  prayers  and  sympathy.  For  gifts  and 
work.     Stand  steady." 

A   NATIONAL    FIGURE 

And  the  Presiding  Bishop  of  the  American  Church  had 
become  a  national  figure. 

It  is  no  wonder  when  we  think  what  his  work  had  covered. 
The  Church  at  Work  is  authority  for  saying  that  the  son  of  a 


38  SOLDIER  AND  SERVANT  SERIES 

sturdy  blacksmith  had  filled  the  Episcopal  office  for  fifty-six 
years  of  the  eighty-six  of  his  life.  And  he  mipht  have  said  with 
St.  Polycarp:  "Four-score  and  six  years  have  I  served  Him, 
and  He  hath  done  me  no  ill."  During  his  Episcopate  one  hundred 
and  forty-three  Bishops  were  consecrated,  and  he  participated 
in  the  consecration  of  ninety-one.  When  the  centennial  of  the 
Domestic  and  Foreign  Missionary  Society  was  celebrated,  it 
was  noted  that  he  had  been  a  Bishop  fifty-four  years  of  that 
century.  When  consecrated  he  was  the  youngest  Bishop  in  the 
world.  When  he  died  it  is  believed  he  was  the  oldest  in  term  of 
service. 

During  the  days  of  his  last  illness  the  papers  throughout  the 
United  States  published  daily  bulletins  of  his  condition. 

When  he  died,  April  17,  1923,  the  Roman  Catholic  Arch- 
bishop, the  leading  Hebrew  Rabbi,  and  Clergy  of  all  denomi- 
nations united  in  expressions  of  sorrow.  By  order  of  the  mayor 
all  flags  in  the  city  flew  at  half-mast  the  day  of  the  funeral,  and 
all  traffic  was  stopped  from  one  to  three  o'clock  in  a  radius  of 
four  blocks  from  the  Cathedral.  The  service  was  marked  by 
simplicity,  and  favorite  hymns  were  sung,  "Lead,  Kindly  Light,' 
and  "For  All  Thy  Saints  Who  from  Their  Labors  Rest." 

That  the  last  impression  of  this  sketch  be  one  to  leave  in 
mind  a  vision  of  Daniel  Sylvester  Tuttle  in  life,  rather  than  of 
his  sleeping  form  in  its  long  repose,  the  reader  will  welcome  an 
incident  as  related  by  a  Clerical  Deputy  to  the  General  Con- 
vention at  Portland,  Oregon,  in  1922,  the  last  at  which  the 
Bishop  was  in  attendance  and  presided: 

The  venerable  prelate  was  found  late  one  afternoon  drinking 
a  friendly  cup  of  tea  in  the  basement  of  the  Municipal  Audi- 
torium. He  had  just  "said  a  word"  to  a  group  of  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary,  with  a  flash  here  and  there  of  his  inimitable  humor, 
and  had  settled  himself  apart  from  the  crowded  spaces  around 
or  near  the  bountifully  laden  tables.  Among  those  standing 
not  far  from  the  Presiding  Bishop  was  a  distinguished  visitor 


"East  and  West" 

The  Bishop  of  Jerusalem  and  Bishop  Tuttle  at  the  General  Convention,  Portland 


DANIEL  SYLVESTER  TUTTLE  39 

from  a  foreign  land,  who  with  a  clerical  deputy  had  been  dis- 
cussing the  possibility  of  presenting  the  message  he  was  com- 
missioned to  bring  to  the  House  of  Bishops.  The  visitor's 
special  desire  was  to  have  the  interest  and  approval  of  the 
Presiding  Bishop,  who  had  known  a  noted  relative  of  his  in 
India. 

Permission  was  sought  to  present  the  visitor,  and  it  was 
heartily  granted.  When  he  was  introduced  to  Bishop  Tuttle, 
the  latter  showed  the  keenest  interest  in  the  request  and  mission 
of  the  former,  illuminating  the  conversation  with  reminiscenes 
of  occasions  when  he  had  met  this  relative  of  the  Far  East  in 
England.  The  naturalness  of  the  situation,  the  friendliness 
of  the  Presiding  Bishop,  the  promptness  with  which  he  took  up 
the  situation,  his  manifest  desire  to  secure  for  the  distinguished 
visitor  a  hearing  before  the  House  of  Bishops,  were,  as  might 
easily  be  imagined,  in  sharp  contrast  to  like  situations  in  other 
countries.  The  "sweet  reasonableness"  of  Bishop  Tuttle  saw 
the  whole  situation,  and  he  expressed  an  opinion  that  nothing 
should  stand  in  the  way  of  granting  the  request  made  in  so  in- 
formal a  manner.  Thus  introduced,  later  a  message  from  the 
Church  in  India  was  duly  presented  to  the  House  of  Bishops. 

This  incident,  though  it  may  seem  of  lesser  importance  in 
comparison  with  other  matters  that  were  the  concern  of  those 
gathered  in  Portland,  revealed  to  a  stranger  in  a  flash,  the 
splendid  courtesy,  the  wide  sweep -of  interest,  the  innate  desire 
to  help,  with  all  the  influence  of  his  high  office,  anyone  who  made 
a  request  of  him.  These  manifestations  of  the  man  immediately 
created  an  atmosphere  of  simplicity,  of  reality,  that  was  almost 
naive. 

And  thus  we  think  of  him  in  exalted  place  humble  and 
human,  an  example  for  us  all! 


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